Chapter 131: Rookie Challenge (Part II)
The second half of the game begins......
Rubio slowly came to the front court with the ball, Leonard immediately stepped forward to block and dismantle, Davis also came out of the three-point line for the first time to open up space for his teammates to attack, Rubio accelerated past Thompson after blocking and dismantling, Tyler Zeller gave up the marking of Davis and went to the interior to help defend Rubio.
Zeller gave up his defense against Davis and almost pounced on Rubio's back to the inside, but just when Tyler Zeller was two steps away from Rubio to block Rubio, Rubio suddenly passed the ball from behind to Sun Xiaotian, who had already cut the paper inside.
Sun Xiaotian was stunned for a moment after receiving the ball, and he didn't understand how Rubio's ball came out, but he didn't hesitate, and jumped up with a one-handed backhand.
Looking back, Irving faced Rubio and made a series of crotch dribbles, which really amazed the audience. Irving is widely regarded as one of the league's best players in the combination of man and ball, playing with a fluid but practical style on the court.
A series of crotch, followed by Owen leaning in, Rubio hurriedly retreated, but Owen collected the ball very quickly, Rubio suddenly stumbled, and the scene made a "woo" sound, the only fly in the ointment was that Owen failed to throw the ball in, but fortunately the ball just bounced into Lillard's hand.
And the official Sun Xiaotian standing in front of Lillard at this time!
This is the first real meeting between Sun Xiaotian and Lillard today, and the fans on the scene began to heckle, and the other players on the court also retreated to the bottom line to give them full space.
Lillard looked at the timer, and when there were 12 seconds left in the offensive time, he suddenly started to speed up, and suddenly Sun Xiaotian was on his left, Sun Xiaotian was already taller than Lillard, plus a pair of long arms stretched out, Lillard wanted to break past Sun Xiaotian, which seemed a little difficult.
But Lillard didn't mean that at all, only to see him return the ball under his crotch, stop and step back, and fly to throw the ball when the timer was almost on.
The ball made a super high arc.
"Huh!"
The ball hollows into the net.
When he returned to the defense, Lillard spread his hands and smiled at this Sun Xiaotian.
Sun Xiaotian understood that Lillard was demonstrating to himself.
Turning around, Rubio playfully gave the ball directly to Sun Xiaotian, and then walked away with the others.
Sun Xiaotian was also unhurried in the face of Lillard. He is taller and stronger than Lillard, and of course he is not slower than him, so it is indeed a little difficult for Lillard to defend Sun Xiaotian.
Sun Xiaotian first took a step forward, and in this short period of time, adjusted his center of gravity, and then dribbled with his back, Lillard used his footsteps and did not let Sun Xiaotian burst into the restricted area.
However, Sun Xiaotian made an amazing move, after he stopped the ball, he picked up the ball with his right hand and threw it high from Sun Xiaotian's armpit in the direction of the rebound. Everyone thought that someone under the basket would answer, or receive it empty, or go to the basket. Lillard turned his head to look under the basket, "! No one! ”
When he turned back again, Sun Xiaotian was gone. It turned out that the moment Sun Xiaotian threw the ball, he turned around and ran to the basket, after the ball rebounded after hitting the rebound, Sun Xiaotian jumped up, watched the tumbling basketball slowly grow bigger in his eyes, and leaned forward at the same time, swept the basketball to the front of the basket first, grabbed the basketball that had flown to the front of the head like magic, and then sank with both hands, held the ball on his waist, and then picked up the basketball with his right hand alone, drew a beautiful half circle, and smashed the basketball into the basket sideways!
"Bang!" The basket let out a groan of pain.
The scene exploded all of a sudden, and the on-site commentator shouted: "Did you see it? See? Can you believe that? Who does this ball remind you of? ”
Sun Xiaotian's ball may have made people look forward to his performance in the slam dunk contest next.
The next few minutes were completely watching Sun Xiaotian and Lillard play each other's offensive performances, and the two took out all the weapons in their arsenals to duel, but they were always up and down, whether it was scoring or passing, the two could be said to be the best among young players.
The score was not much apart because of the efforts of the two people, and soon after the two were replaced, the score difference on the field was suddenly stretched to 21 points.
After the two got off the court, the defense of the players of the two teams finally relaxed a little, and Knight's fate still did not change, just like a scene in history, the offensive and defensive conversion was easily shaken to the ground by Irving, and it became the background board again, which also made the background board for the second time this season, and after the game, the media issued a "report of Knight's murder".
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With three minutes left in the game, with a dunk by Faried, the score became 149-119, and the margin widened to 30 points.
After that, the game completely became a dunk competition between the two teams, and all kinds of difficult breakthroughs and violent dunks were frequently staged. The final score was fixed at 163-135, and Barkley won the game again, and after the game, Barkley laughed at O'Neal, who had lost to him for the second year in a row. The 163 points set an all-time scoring record for a rookie game, and 17 three-pointers also tied the all-time record for a rookie game.
In this game, Sun Xiaotian got 30 points, 7 rebounds, and 10 assists, and Lillard scored 27 points, 12 rebounds, and 7 assists, but the MVP of the rookie game was won by Faried, who scored 40 points and 12 rebounds.
Sun's performance at the rookie game made him even more eye-catching during All-Star Weekend, a high-profile holiday in the United States.
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This year's All-Star Game Shooting Stars, Three-Point Contest, Slam Dunk Contest, Skills Challenge and other individual events are conducted in the form of east-west confrontation, and points are calculated according to the results of the preliminaries and finals.
The Rookie Challenge was followed by the Shooting Star, and in the end, the West took less time than the East to win the preliminaries of the Shooting Star and earn 20 points for the West Force. Bosh led the team to victory, winning the final of the Shooting Star competition, scoring 10 points for the East Force.
In the preliminaries of the Skills Challenge, the eastern part shared a time of 1 minute and 50.9 seconds, and the western part shared a time of 1 minute and 53.3 seconds. The East gets 30 points. In the end, Lillard won the skills final, earning 10 points for the West. After the trick game, the Eastern Conference points were 40-30.
In the three-point competition, the three players of the Western Army scored a total of 54 points in the preliminaries, and the three players of the Eastern Army scored a total of 45 points in the preliminaries. The West Force won 40 points. But in the end, Irving won the three-point contest and earned 10 points for the East Army. After the three-point contest, the Western team overtook the eastern team 70-50 points.
And then it's the highlight, the slam dunk contest!!
This year's slam dunk contest is also a group confrontation between the east and the west, and Sun Xiaotian will compete with Gerald. Green and Terrance. Together, Ross formed the Eastern Force against the Western Force formed by Jeremy Evans, Eric Bledsoe, and Kenneth Faried.
And in this slam dunk contest, Sun Xiaotian will change the history of the yellow race no matter what the result is.